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When you’re an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

Darren Criss

The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.
DARREN CRISS

People Trying Years
As long as it’s live, it’s the best because there’s sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you’re at the whim of so many different forces.
DARREN CRISS

Connection Different Long Performer
I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I’m happy when I land on the roof.
DARREN CRISS

Always Land Moon Roof
Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
DARREN CRISS

Friends Funny Good Really Sometimes
I’ve always been the annoying kid who sang.
DARREN CRISS

Always Annoying Kids Sing
I’m in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That’s invaluable. I can’t believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.
DARREN CRISS

Art Believe Minority Parents Real Supporter
I don’t take breaks, man, I’m always doing something.
DARREN CRISS

Break Men Something Take
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
DARREN CRISS

Ideas People Thinking
My name’s Darren. I’m a musician, part time idiot. That’s a full time job actually.
DARREN CRISS

Jobs Musician Names
I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
DARREN CRISS

Ambitious Bars Raises
I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I’ll run for president.
DARREN CRISS

President Running United States
As a composer and as a musician I’m a true believer – and this is not to be overly diplomatic – I’m a believer that there’s artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There’s art in absolutely everything.
DARREN CRISS

Art Musician Symphony
I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything I’m not. I’m just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.
DARREN CRISS

Artist Cares Hope Lucky
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
DARREN CRISS

Biggest Inanimate Objects
I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.
DARREN CRISS

Badass Being People Yourself
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
DARREN CRISS

Mean Someday Theater

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